Farscape

[Ruinel]

Originally posted by Anglorfin
...I will maintain that Scorpius is one of the best villians of all time.

On the outside he has had a typical good guy tragic story...

And by this I assume that you think of Scorpius as a hero and not a villan? I see him as an opportunistic villan. I think he was always playing team member when he joined the ship as a means to get John Crighton's worm hole info.

... but why the hero status? Well if you were a Peacekeeper trying to "save" the universe from apparently imminent Scarran takeover, you might look at this scientist as your last hope for survival and victory. Despite the methods that he uses, Scorpius is still fighting for a seemingly good cause. He could be known as the man that gave Peacekeepers the weapon they needed to save the universe.

But were the Peacekeepers trying to save the universe? I always saw the struggle between Scarrans and Peacekeepers as a fight for control over space, the planets within that space and rule over the people that lived within that domain. As for the Peacekeeper point of view, if the Scarrans were ultimately defeated, would the Peacekeepers have backed off and allowed the people within the new liberated space to control themselves? I never got that impression.

(Yes, I'm out of town at training/meetings for work. But I'll try to get a little bit of computer time in if I can.)